Corn-popping apparatus



Jan. 2s, 1930. M, JOFFE l 1,744,900

CORN POPPING APPARATUS Filed Aug. 3. 1928 Mbwb's Jaffe;

Patented Jan. 28, 1930 UNTTED STATES PATENT oFFicE g MORRIS JOFFE, on Yorin, N. Y." I i y y i j CORN-foraine Arrnnnrus Y, Application inea August 3.11923., sriai N9. 297,247.

This invention relates to improvements in 4ever it may be desiredto -use the same as' a corn poppers and more particularly to appacorn popper.L ratus which may be employed with any ordiy Referring to Figure 1 of the drawing there nary cooking utensil or receptacle, so that the "is shown a corn popping attachmentlin the 5 same may also serve as an elfieient corn j form of a dome shaped container 10 made of'A 55 popper. foraminous material such as light woven rThe object of this invention is to provide wire'for example. VThe bottom of the yconan inexpensive corn popper attachment taineris open so that the corn to be popped which may be used in conjunction with any rests directly on the cooking-utensil used in 1o size or type of home cooking utensil such as a conjunction with the device. The container 60 pot, frying pan, griddle iron or similar utenis provided with a handle 1l secured near the sil, so that the corn may be properly venti-V `top portion thereof, and this enables thedelated and agitated duringV the popping vice toy be held in cont-act'with any'cooking process. utensil to which it may be applied. The con- Another object of the invention is to protents of the container may be agitated by an 65 vide apparatus of the character designated agitator handle member 12 mounted in a in which a dome shaped container of foramibearing 13 located at the top of the container. nous material shall be placed directly in con- In Figure 2 the apparatus 10 -is positioned tact with the bottom of the utensil so as to Y in a large size frying pan 14 and an agitator obviate the necessity of any fastening mech- 15 operated by handle 12 is adaptedto be --70 anism for holding the device in position on moved over the heated surface of the pan to the utensil to which it may be applied. properly agitate the corn during the popping A further object of the invention is to proprocess. The foraminous container 10 is revide an apparatus of the character desiginforced by wires 16 which form an extension nated which shall be durable in construcof the handle member l11 and these partially 75 tion. and simple in operation, so that it may encircle ythe dome shaped container. TheV readily be applied to any ordinary cooking wire 16 is soldered to the wire meshes and utensil without alterationv or adjustment also to the bearing plates 13 so that a rigid thereof to pop corn more efliciently than structure is obtained. The edge of the consimilar devices heretofore employed. tainer is also reinforced by a heavy rim 17'y 80 These and other objects will be more manialso soldered to the ends of wires 16, and thus fest from the following description taken in the device is able to withstand considerable connection with the accompanying drawings rough usage-to which it may be subjected. and specifically set forth in the appended In Figure 3 the device is placed on a Hat claims. griddleiron 18, thereby illustrating the wide S5 In the drawings: variety of cooking utensils to which the im- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device proved ycorn popping attachment may be apembodying my invention. plied.

Figure 2 is a sectional view showing the Another important feature of the invenapplication of the invention to a frying pan. tion is that the lower edge of the container a0 Figure 3 is a similar view showing the ap- 10 engages only on the bottom of the cooking plication to a griddle iron. utensil to which it is applied and is not re- Corn popping attachments heretofore emstricted in use to any particular type, size ployed with cooking utensils have been eonor kind of receptacle. structed for use with a particular kind or The container 10 being of foraminous ma 95 type of cooking utensil. Oneimportant featerial the corn may be properly ventilated ture of the present invention is that the corn and observed during the popping process. pepper attachment hereinafter described This construction provides an attachment may be applied with equal facility to a deep which may be manipulated independently of receptacle or shallow plate of anysize whenthe receptacle to which it is applied. ica

While I have shown the device applied to two different kinds of cooking utensils, it is obvious that various changes may be made therein Without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the claims.

What I claim is:

1. In combination with a cooking ,utensil having Aa substantially flat bottom, a .dome shaped foraminous container having an open side adjacent to the bottom of said utensil, a handle means associated with the lcontainer and partially encircling the container for reinforcing the same and an agitator arranged to move in the plane voaf .the open side and agtate the contents on the heated surface of the cooking lutensil.

2. In a corn popping apparatus lthe-combination 'with a dome shaped oraminous rece aole havin nan open side adapted to lie n jacent-to a )cated surface, vof a rotatable agatator Carried by the top portion of the receptacle and havingl agitator members adapted to move in the plane of Vthe open side thereof, reinforcing members for the oraminous receptacle and an angularly disposed handle member :supported by the reinforcing members.

In testimony whereof I aHix `my signature.

MORRIS J OFFE. 

